Hādhā Kitāb al-Ṣurāḥ fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah:
muhktaṣar al-Ṣiḥāḥ,
[19th century?].

هذا كتاب الصراح في اللغة العربية : مختصر الصحاح, [القرن 19م؟].

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Main Author
Jamāl Qarshī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, active 13th century.
Related Names
Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, -1003?
Language(s)
Persian
Published
[18--?].
Subjects
Jawharī, Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād, > -1003? > Ṣiḥāḥ.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Manuscripts, Persian > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Arabic language > Dictionaries > Persian.
Summary
Fine copy of the abridgement and rendering into Persian by Abū al-Faz̤l Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn Khālid Jamāl al-Qarshī of the renowned Arabic lexicon, Tāj al-lughah wa-ṣiḥāḥ al-ʻArabīyah, commonly known as al-Ṣiḥāḥ, by Abū Naṣr Ismāʻīl ibn Ḥammād al-Jawharī (d.1009?). Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza.
Note
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1003
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, hand, etc. may suggest 19th century.
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 152
Binding: Boards covered in dark green textured cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with "الصراح في الغريب | جمال القرشي | J.H.D." ; now sewn in white thread over recessed cords, false raised bands at spine ; overall in fairly good condition with minor fraying of cloth at board corners.
Support: non-European laid paper with 7 lines per cm. and chain lines unclear, cloudy formation with fibers visible, lightly burnished ; final leaf anomalous, European paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines horizonal spaced 28 mm. apart ; insect damage throughout (small holes), some repaired with paper fills (sometimes partially obscuring text) ; edges and corners of some pages filled with non-European paper ; first page re-mounted on non-European paper ; water-damage (discoloration, cockled pages) ; on bottom corners of last few quires old adhesive from repairs causing several pages to stick together at edges.
Decoration: Occasional keywords and section headings rubricated ; overlining in red.
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; several hands ; all mainly serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, contrast in thickness between vertical and horizontal strokes, horizontal lengthening of letters, pointing in conjoined dots and stroke looking like upside down comma, use of hāʼ makhṭūfah for initial hāʼ and hāʼ mudghamah for medial hāʼ ; at pp.559-560 hand changes abruptly to much thinner line, more condensed with more words per line.
Layout: Written in 23-25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: 66 IV (528), IV+3 (539) ; exclusively quaternions ; middle of the quire marks in the form of oblique strokes in black ink on top outer corner of right-hand page and bottom outer corner of left-hand page (sometimes one vertical stroke and one diagonal) ; catchwords present ; irregular Western numerals in pencil appear in top left corner of some rectos (see p.21, 81, 161, 201, etc.), reverse of text direction ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.
Explicit: "الدخول كانهم اي من اجل الدخول و توضع موضوع علي قوله تع و منهم من"
Incipit: "قال الفقير الى مولاه الغني ... ابو الفضل محمد بن عمر بن خالد المدعو بجمال القرشي ... احمد الله وهو المحمود بكل اللغات وجلها واشكره وهو المشكور على كثير الهان ... وبعد فان صحاح اللغة دواء العلة لسقام الجهل وشقاء الغلة ازوي الفعل ..."
Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).
Ms. codex.
On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 8989" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-12-51 | 71955" ; occasional marginal gloss or correction in black ink ; notabilia (side-heads) in black ink.
Physical Description
539 leaves : paper ; 265 x 135 (205 x 100) mm. bound to 270 x 150 mm.
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